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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

Baz Luhrmann

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Ballroom Fear Half Life
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
I’ve always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it’s the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia’s passion to get lost in a faraway place.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Epic Passion Simple
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Adult Age Watches
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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Film People Thinking
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Country Drama Grow Up
To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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Gas Honest Stations Tourists
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Culture Form Thinking
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Constraint Creative Want
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Circus Falling Love People
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Acceptance Cities Multicultural
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Country Far Away World

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

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